Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California Wool Growers Association: "One insurmountable object is a Government which changes the rules every June and keeps talking about what it will do next in all the months between. If we are ever to get increased production we must have the confidence that government will not upset our plans and we must have some degree of certainty of profits...
...world balance of power has been upset," he declared. "In five years, any moderately large nation will probably have the capacity to produce the bomb. No nation will be safe. No longer will there be any discrepancy between the three super-powers and the rest of the world. We are all small nations...
...World War II wondered how they had ever gotten along without her. She listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
...rightist Parisian daily Epoque angrily accused the foreign minister of "torpedoing" Blum's "most delicate mission." Said L'Aurore: "This is not public diplomacy. This is yelling on the fairground. . . . Bidault talks to the Americans in a manner best calculated to upset them-by threatening blackmail." Bidault hastily said he had been misinterpreted...
Wisconsin had the fever worst of all. Thousands of small-towners crowded into Madison, to find themselves out of luck for hotel rooms or basketball tickets; 32 players had to sleep in the city jail. Aggressive little Reedsville High (44 boys) upset Eau Claire in the final, and every one of Wisconsin's 260 little high schools cheered the victory...